Lorena Bañares

Vietnam (residence), Philippines (citizenship)
research interests: post-photography, posthumanism, research-creation
affiliation: RMIT University Vietnam
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Lorena R. Bañares, DCOMM is a Lecturer in Communication at RMIT University, Vietnam. Her researches are anchored on the philosophy and concepts of Deleuze and Guattari, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway. An advocate of Posthumanities, much of her scholarly works use speculative/postqualitative approaches, artistic research, and in developing new methodologies. She is interested in the intersectionality of arts, communication and research-creation. 

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  • Assembling Hanoi: Metamorphosis of Photographic Images (2025) author(s): Lorena Bañares published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
    Interested in how photographs are constituted, this exposition situates itself in between materialities of photography to discover how photographs are actualized. Using photography as artistic research practice, it uncovers how matters, sounds, bodies, and machines intra-act within the practice of photography. The inquiry challenges the bifurcation between the outside/inside of the frame, rather it emphasizes its fluid nature. It delves into the cosmogenesis of a photograph exploring the multiple folds and transformations in actualizing a photograph revealing the intricate and dynamic assemblages of humans and non-humans from the outside folding with the inside. Thinking with Gilles Deleuze's concept of the Folds, the exposition was able to surface layers upon layers of bodily and material folds that trouble the traditional notion of photographs as images separated from the outside. In the middle of its messiness, the exposition was able to develop an Applique technique as a method of knowing that emerges from this artistic research practice. What came out are layers of images that describe photography as performative movement of matters and bodies, a metamorphosis of infinite images while navigating the rich culture of Vietnam’s Hanoi capital.
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